Will the Circle Be Unbroken?

Appalachia Once and Future

“There really is no other way to describe it than as a communion — a communion with the land, with each other, but most of all, with family.” I’ve asked my mother what it means to be Appalachian, and she is studying the air in front of her while she tells me. “Really, it’s about being in harmony with the world God has created, with living things.”